News from the Front Lines

I’ve heard good news and bad news lately on the COVID-19 front.

First a bit of good news. Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, a leader of TruthForHealth.org, which seems to be affiliated with Dr. McCullough and other Frontline doctors, sat for an interview with Joshua Philipp on Crossroads:

·        “How to Treat Vaccine Injuries: Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet” Joshua Phillip, Crossroads, EpochTV, September 1, 2022. 

The interview’s title was not quite accurate. She didn’t talk much about treatment for the vaccine injured, other than to say it includes testing and treatment, plus supplements, foods, and lifestyle changes. And she said you can download a guide from TruthForHealth.org. My first attempt got me only a COVID-19 treatment guide, which was useful, though not what I was looking for today. But eventually I found the very informative vaccine injury guide here. 

Much of that conversation, however, covered the ever-increasing evidence that the vaccines cause harm. While a traditional vaccine puts an inert virus in the injection site, which the body then recognizes and has antibodies against in any future exposure. But these mRNA “vaccines” do not remain at the injection site. The mRNA vaccine crosses the blood-brain barrier. It crosses the placental barrier from pregnant woman to child. We haven’t seen a vaccine do those things previously.

Reported side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines.
Image from the Truth for Health Foundation's Vaccine Injury Treatment Guide.

Alarming Firsts with the shots,
another page from the Vaccine Injury Treatment Guide

There’s more news. There’s a weird story that will probably gross you out. I first learned of it in this Epoch Times story.

·        “Embalmers Have Been Finding Numerous Long, Fibrous Clots That Lack Post-Mortem Characteristics” by Enrico Trigoso for The Epoch Times, September 2, 2022.

 

Examples of the strange clots found by embalmers in the deceased.
Screenshot from here.

It also came up on the Charlie Kirk podcast today (September 8, 2022). During the first half of that podcast Kirk talks with Frontline Doctor Pierre Kory, about the weird blood clot news. He plays part of this clip, also found on EpochTV, in the Frontline Health show:

·        “Mystery Clots Appear in 50–70 Percent of Deceased: Funeral Director” Frontline Health, on EpochTV, September 6, 2022.  

There are more similar videos from Frontline Health on EpochTV concerning clots being caused by the vaccine, and quite a lot else worth exploring. [If you subscribe to the online version of The Epoch Times, you get access to all the EpochTV content as well. If you haven't done that yet, you probably ought to make that a daily news source. And no, I don't get sponsor money for saying so.]

The clots being observed by embalmers are definitely new in the past year. Clots in general in the dead have been a problem for embalmers in about 5-10% of cases. Now they’re suddenly a problem in 50-70% of cases, a vast increase. And these particular clots, while they appear in veins and arteries, do not appear to have come from blood cells. They lack iron, potassium, magnesium, and zinc. While many are small, some have been as long as a leg bone—a couple of feet—and as big around as a pinky, according to the story. Draining blood, which is part of the embalming process, is taking double the usual time when these clots appear. There is a likelihood in many of these cases that the blood clots were a causal factor in the death.

The story does not say the vaccine definitely causes this anomaly that began being observed in late summer 2021. But when you see something suddenly appear in a population, you look at what has changed. This is a year and a half into the pandemic; it wasn’t seen in people who died of COVID-19 until the shot became common. Doctors are still trying to gather data to determine whether those who have these clots post-mortem are people who had taken the shots. Correlation does not necessarily mean causation. But it is certainly worth exploring.

Elsewhere in that conversation with Dr. Kory, the doctor cited studies showing that the vaccinated, and especially the boosted fare the worst.

But Dr. Kory did bring some good news. He cited a recent study (one of some 90 peer-reviewed studies on the subject) showing that Ivermectin has a 92% efficacy rate in preventing death and hospitalization in the disease. Dr. Kory, Dr. Vliet, Dr. McCullough, and others all report that they have given Ivermectin in early treatment and—regardless of age and co-morbidities—have had zero patients die or go to the hospital. 

The bad news is that Ivermectin is still a censored word in social media, and many doctors are not aware of it. Dr. Vliet’s TruthForHealth.org site, as well as Dr. McCullough’s site and affiliated AAPS site [Association of American Physicians and Surgeons] have suggested protocols and treatment guides. A number of these doctors have been using these protocols successfully since March 2020 and have been refining as the disease has varied.

Let’s count this story as good news, even though it is either ignored or censored.

There’s more bad news. There have been multiple stories lately about excess deaths in relatively young people. Some have referred to it as Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, which refers mainly to sudden heart failure, but it may be broader than that. Jan Jekielek, on EpochTV’s American Thought Leaders, interviewed Edward Dowd, a former Wall Street analyst and insurance data guy, who has been analyzing CDC and insurance actuarial data to look at excess deaths. In the 35-44 age cohort, there has been a doubling of deaths. Dowd describes it as a war. The number of deaths in the year following the vaccination rollout—and government mandates—has been approximately the number of Americans lost in the Vietnam War. This was just between March 2021 to February 2022:

·        “Excess Mortality Doubled for Americans Aged 35to 44: Edward Dowd on New Society of Actuaries Data” Jan Jekielek, American Thought Leaders, on EpochTV, September 6, 2022. 

Edward Dowd uses actuarial data to look at excess deaths,
and speculates that the likely cause is the vaccines.
Screenshot from here.

In the interview, Jekielek refers to this story from last January:

·        “‘Huge, huge numbers:’ insurance group sees death rates up 40 percent over pre-pandemic levels” by Shirin Ali for The Hill, January 7, 2022. 

Dowd says that, while he’s not a doctor, he is particularly well trained at noticing trends before other people do. His success has required being right, being early, and being loud. That is what he’s trying to do here. There is reason to believe the COVID-19 vaccines are causing death. And if it isn’t the vaccines, then somebody ought to be exploring what else it could be.

A CDC table showing the timing of excess deaths.
Screenshot from here.

Actuarial table showing the worst outcomes have been in the 35-44 age range.
Screenshot from here.

In that same Charlie Kirk podcast with Dr. Kory, Kirk talks with Dr. Robert Malone, who has been calmly outspoken against coercion in the use an emergency use authorized intervention (EUA). He reminds us that all of the vaccines in the US are still EUA only; none has received approval as safe. And no one can legally be forced to take one. And yet most people are not informed of this.

Dr. Malone mentions Dr. Ryan Cole, who has spoken out about the uptick in cancer, particularly since the use of the COVID-19 vaccines. (And note, we call them vaccines only because they are a shot that is called a vaccine, but they neither prevent getting the disease nor spreading it, as you would expect a vaccine to do. They are more accurately called gene therapy.)

There is growing fear that the shots actually cause a compromised immune system. Recent studies in mice investigated the lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) used to deliver the mRNA in the shots. These were thought to be safe, but this study finds they are highly inflammatory, and actually weaken the immune system.

·        “Inflammatory mRNA Nanoparticles Inhibit and Alter Immune Response: Pre-Print Study” by Marina Zhang for The Epoch Times, August 31, 2022. 

OK, that’s quite a lot of news that can be boiled down to, “If you got the shot, you’re in trouble.” While you’re better off if you didn’t get the vaccine (my advice from the beginning), you won’t necessarily see negative health results. As with so many health issues, doctors can’t always explain why one person suffers and another doesn’t. But taking good care of your health going forward—using Vitamin D3 and zinc, for example—and avoiding any further shot would be wise. The vaccine injury guide mentioned above includes advice if you've had the shot but no noticeable symptoms—as well as what to do if you do have symptoms.

Dr. Malone has been daring enough to agree with Peter Navarro, who went on War Room recently and said, based on body count Fauci is the “biggest mass murder in history and also a serial killer.” I’ve said as much myself, wondering just how his impending judgment before God will go. But Fauci is certainly not alone as a mass-murderer-through-pandemic.

Dr. Malone agrees that there needs to be accountability for all those involved in preventing early treatment and imposing harmful interventions. He introduces the term “inverted totalitarianism,” which is not just top down, but also bottom up and dispersed, meaning leaders can be switched out without much changing in the power structure. This is going to take me some more thinking to digest. But he does say that we can only hold these people accountable “if there is a wave election in November.” The people in power now have no intention of holding Fauci or anyone else accountable.

Every time we see a totalitarian government—mainly Marxists—we have an astounding death count. This past couple of years is on par with some of those decades-long regimes.

The Existential Threat

It was not a unifying speech Biden gave September 1^st. Once again The Babylon Bee gets it right. They satirically quote him as saying, "It's real simple, folks! America can be united if we can just murder everyone who disagrees with me. Peace in our time, Jack!"

Joe Biden give angry anti-Republican speech
amid scary lighting, September 2, 2022.
Image found as a screenshot from here.

Some have speculated that the dark, scary lighting and angry, hate-filled rhetoric was not necessarily intended to get his base to hate Republicans; that would just be a bonus. The speculation is that he intended to upset the people he is accusing—us conservatives—to the point that we will riot or take to the streets, or otherwise do something overt that they can construe as insurrection. And then they can make some arrests and say, “See, we told you so,” thus silencing the rest of us.

Maybe. It’s hard to get into the head of evil unless that’s a place you frequent.

Mocking is probably the best response. And there has been quite a lot. Here are a few, plus some other brief responses.

Responses

Communist version as a meme,
found here

No need for comment. Found as a screenshot here,
where memes were discussed, not created.

Post on a Facebook group, including
the ubiquitous and unhelpful COVID-19 warning.

Ben Shapiro tweet about the speech.
Found as a screenshot here.

 

Ted Cruz tweet about the speech.
Found as a screenshot here.

Law vlogger Viva Frei points out the detail
about the timing of the speech.
Found as a screenshot here.

 

Video and Written Responses

·        “Biden’s Catastrophic Speech” by Charles C. W. Cooke for National Review, September 2, 2022. 

·        “Biden is Trying to be Trump but Turning into Hitler” Mr. Reagan podcast, September 2, 2022. 

·        “POTUS Speech; More Oh Canada; Viva Frei-Days (& Anniversary Stream)” Viva Frei livestream, September 2, 2022. 

·        “Ep. 127: Trump's EMPTY FOLDERS! Biden Speech; Zuck LOSES; Louden; Danchenko & MORE!” Viva & Barnes Sunday night livestream, September 4, 2022. 

·        “Trump Judge UNSEALS More in Mar-a-Lago; Biden Declares WAR on MAGA; Hungover Joe BACKPEDALS” Robert Gouveia livestream, September 2, 2022. 

A Better Plan for Unity

I have a better plan for being unified: We all unify around the Constitution, the document detailing the limits of government, enumerating the powers granted to this government, and enshrining the natural rights government cannot be allowed to infringe upon—that ideal we have pledged allegiance to, after all. This will lead to peace and prosperity.

Or, in Spherical Model terminology: freedom, prosperity, and civilization.

This speech was just a week or so after Biden referred to his political opponents as “semi-fascists.” When confronted about what he meant by that, he said, “You know what I meant.” Yes, we do. We recognize that he is going to throw a hateful label on anybody who dares to disagree with him and his agenda (and that of his behind-the-scenes controllers).

There isn’t any amount of name calling that will actually confer the status of fascist onto Constitution-abiding citizens. What we’re seeing is more accurately confession by projection; they’re doing what they accuse us of. 

In a recent post we quoted Michael Millerman saying,

If you can legitimate calling all of your enemies fascists, and you can legitimate, you know, fascists are so much the scum of the earth that they should be cancelled—or killed—well, you’re not very far from legitimating the killing of your political enemies.

In other words, The Babylon Bee’s assessment of the speech is on point.

The term fascist has been tossed around as an epithet more than usual lately. But my guess is, if you did one of those man-on-the-street interviews, you would find people who know it’s a bad thing, but they can’t define it or accurately identify fascist behavior.

I think the Spherical Model can help with the needed education. This is an ongoing education project. I’ve done this before. The fact that my blog does not reach millions of people means I need to repeat a lot.

Back in April 2019 I used my dictionary to define fascism. The essential definition is:

A system of government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible suppression of opposition, private economic enterprise under centralized governmental control, belligerent nationalism, racism, and militarism, etc.

A couple of months ago, while talking about the EPA ruling, Joshua Philipp on Crossroads casually defined Nazism this way:

Essentially government using corporations and their control over corporations or public private partnerships to do things that they can't legally do.

I think that’s only part of it. But it’s a part we’re increasingly seeing, here in America, where we pledge allegiance to a constitutional republic, not some sort of authoritarian dictatorship. So it’s disturbing. (See Mark Zuckerberg’s interview on Joe Rogan's show.)

Even people on our side seem to be unclear on the definition, especially when comparing it to the fellow Marxist labels of communist and socialist. They’re not different, except possibly in some particular seasoning in the standard recipe. On the Spherical Model all the flavors of totalitarian statist tyranny occupy the same portion of the sphere.

The Spherical Model, showing fascism, socialism,
and communism all occupying the same quadrant, 
because they are all just forms of statist tyranny.

 

What Was in the Speech?

I read, rather than listened to, the speech. I used this transcript. 

Biden used the word “democracy” 31 times. He referred to our “republic” twice, one of those calling the “republic” the guardrails for our “democracy.” So he seems unclear on the concept of our being a constitutional republic.

He refers to Republicans 16 times. Two of those had “mainstream” attached as a modifier; all others were used to reference this threat to democracy, which I’m inferring means “threat to our power.”

He doesn’t define precisely how to identify those threatening, evil MAGA Republicans, who are different somehow from other Republicans that he "can work with." But he does characterize them as extreme—more than once. He says they do not respect our Constitution—and he spent some time, using the historical setting, to set himself up as a Constitution follower and protector, against all obvious reality. He claims these evil extreme Republicans are angry, hateful, and violent. In fact, he used the term "clear and present danger," which is a term used to justify entering into war.

What are the crimes of this existential threat to America?

1.      They refuse to accept the results of a “free and fair” election.

2.      They support pro-life rather than a mother’s “right” to kill her baby in the womb (or possibly shortly thereafter in California).

3.      They support the definition of marriage that has been used by societies for millennia.

4.      They don’t characterize January 6, 2021, as an insurrection.

That first one seems to be the biggest sticking point. “Elections” comes up 11 times. Twice he uses the term “accept the results” of “free and fair elections.” The thing is, we so-called MAGA Republicans, more than any other segment of society, want free and fair elections. That’s why we have been insisting on the rule of law. And each time Biden insists that election fraud is without evidence, we bring out more evidence. (I’ve offered some here, here, and here.) There are boatloads of evidence showing that the results are not what was foisted upon us. Meanwhile, these accusers have spent six years trying to assert that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president.

Yet our reaction has not been to riot in the streets. It has been to amass evidence, bring it before courts when possible, but look mainly toward the future by writing legislation to prevent fraud in the future. And to activate as poll workers and poll watchers. How dangerous!

He claims, “We’ve seen election officials, poll workers—many of them volunteers of both parties—subjected to intimidation and death threats.” I have seen zero evidence of intimidation and death threats toward Democrat poll workers. Zero. Not a case. If there is one somewhere, it is an anomaly. If there are threats against Republicans, that is the Democrat machine doing business as usual.

Neither the second nor third on that list of accusations was a Trump agenda priority. Those were priorities of the people who were looking for someone to represent our viewpoint. He was smart enough to go along with us, particularly in our desire to have Constitution-adhering justices.

That fourth one—we don’t call it an insurrection, because it wasn’t one. Definitions matter. There was violence that day; no one disputes that, and we all decry any violence. However, it is appearing more and more to be instigated as entrapment. Despite their hopes that mass riots would result, only a small fraction participated in violence. The only deaths were caused by police toward non-violent protesters. Most of the rally goers that day remained outside, nonviolent, and uninvolved in anything but a rally. Among the ones they’re accusing are regular Americans, grandparents, patriots, the vast majority of whom at worst walked through the capitol peacefully after being invited in by police. Yet good, nonviolent American citizens have been held, often without charges, unable to talk with counsel, unable to see family, often in solitary confinement, for months going on years so far—just the way authoritarian dictators treat their political opposition.

But we nonviolent law-abiding citizens who voted for Trump are the biggest threat to America?

There’s a segment where he says things I agree with:

This is a nation that honors our Constitution. We do not reject it.

This is a nation that believes in the rule of law. We do not repudiate it.

This is a nation that respects free and fair elections. We honor the will of the people. We do not deny it.

And this is a nation that rejects violence as a political tool. We do not encourage violence.

We are still an America that believes in honesty and decency and respect for others, patriotism, liberty, justice for all, hope, possibilities.

It’s just that each of these things means something different in reality than in Biden world. He and his “team” do not honor our Constitution. They repudiate the rule of law (see my last post). They don’t want “free and fair elections”; they want outcomes their way at all costs. They stoked violence all through the summer of 2020, refusing to call it violence when we saw our cities being destroyed. And then they falsely accused hundreds if thousands if peaceful rally goers of trying to overthrow the government on January 6, 2021, describing it as the worst violence since Pearl Harbor. Worse than 9/11.

As Mr. Reagan said on his September 2 podcast linked above, Trump didn’t create a movement; he got in front of it. He said he would represent the people who weren’t getting represented. He would stand up for them, and he would do what he said he would do. His following through on that is what got my vote the second time around.

Trump is a populist, not a constitutional scholar. So, as long as he keeps his promises to uphold our Constitution—to get back to it—he has supporters. These are not blind followers. And these are certainly not a threat to our constitutional republic.

Biden, et al., meanwhile, is the actual threat. The liar. The hater. Perhaps the most stunning line of the evening was, “I give you my word as a Biden.” We know what that is worth, as he sells his country to China and anyone else willing to pay.

He’s right that America faces a dire threat. But it is from him and his authoritarian fascist cronies, not from the MAGA Republicans or any other keepers of the Constitution.

 

 

Stopping Crime

Harris County, Texas—where Houston is located—is currently a poster example of crime rising for known reasons.

This past Saturday at our local Tea Party meeting, we heard from Andy Kahan of Crime Stoppers. Crime Stoppers is a big, nationwide organization. But Houston is one of the few places where they have a building of their own, because it’s that big, and that necessary. Most of us know about them as a place to call with anonymous tips. That is still true. Crime Stoppers does information and community outreach and education. But their third floor is manned by local law enforcement, who actually take the crime tips.

Kahan (pronounced Kahn) has been fighting crime for some 30 years, just a few of those at Crime Stoppers. He notices trends, and he talked with us about a few of those.

Andy Kahan points out Rosalee Cook, one of 181 victims
of violent felons out on multiple PR bonds in Harris County.

Back in 2018 Harris County had a shift from Republican to Democrat. Votes matter. In that shift we got a Democrat DA, a Democrat County Judge and Democrat-majority Commissioners Court, and a sweep of Democrat judges. All of those are bad. But the biggest effect on crime was the changeout from experienced Republican judges to inexperienced Democrat judges with a penchant to be against incarceration of criminals.

Kahan, talking about his 30 years involved in crime fighting, says this:

I frankly have not seen what I’m seeing, involving the crime rate and what's happening in the courthouse. And I've seen it all. I've been through it all. I've done 27 pieces of legislation to enhance victims’ rights and public safety. But what we are seeing is extremely disturbing.

Here, specifically, is the heart of the problem:

Individuals who have been released on felony bonds are charged with additional crimes have doubled since 2018.

He said it used to be unheard of for violent offenders to “get out of jail free” with a personal recognizance bond. He gives us some numbers:

In 2018 there were 12 defendants who were given PR bonds, charged for violent offenses. 2021 we managed to improve that to 1283. We're talking murder and robbery, assault with a deadly weapon.

Let me do the math for you. That’s 107 times more—not a 100% increase; that would be only two-fold. This is 107-fold more. For every single criminal we used to face back out on the streets, we now face 107 dangerous criminals. Many are released with multiple PR bonds. And they’re set free even when they offend while on parole.

110 of the 1283 violent criminals are capital murderers. Capital murder is the one crime where judges are given the option of no bond—where the judge can refuse to release them for any amount. The assumption is that, even if they could come up with a $1 billion bond, they still shouldn’t be released onto the streets; they should be kept incarcerated up through their trial. But even these known deadly felons are being released among us.

In case we think these violent felons are all hanging around some seedy neighborhood far from our homes, Kahan enlightens us.

He started noticing a trend, that a lot of defendants charged with murder in Harris County had been released on multiple felony bonds. He put together a collection of 181 photos of victims killed by violent felons out on multiple PR bonds—known repeat offenders who were told essentially to “please return to court and behave yourself and don't re-offend again.” Each victim has a story. Here are just a few.

Rosalee Cook

Rosalie Cook right here, 80-year-old grandma who was going to Walgreens on Saturday morning in Meyerland, and she stumbled upon a guy named Randy Lewis. Randy Lewis had over 60 convictions in Harris County. I don't know what he had elsewhere. He was out on not one, but two felony PR bonds, despite having over 60 convictions. He was told to go and live in a facility as a condition of his bond, which he did for a day. Then he walked out, and nobody did anything. Nobody reported it. Nobody told the court, “Hey, this guy is gone. We might want to put, like, a warrant out for his arrest.” Two weeks Randy Lewis whereabouts are unknown. He stumbles upon Rosalee Cook coming into the parking lot. Tries to carjack her. Stabs her to death in the parking lot at 10:00 AM in Walgreens. Rosalee Cook paid the price for discretionary felony bond reform.

 

Martha Medina

Martha Medina coming out of McDonald's. I remember her case. She was followed from a bank, coming in to go to McDonald's, getting her breakfast, walks out. Two guys struck and carjack her and killed her. One of the guys charged with her murder was on bond for capital murder already. Martha Medina paid the price for this.

 

Chi Le

Chi Le, whose body was found stuffed in a freezer off of the Beltway and Hammerly. The individual charged with her murder was on two PR bonds: for violating a protective order and family assault. I could go on and on and on talking about some of these cases here.

 

Stanley Iscovitz

This is Mike Iscovitz’s [the chief meteorologist for Fox 26 in Houston] dad, Stanley. Stanley's an 80-year-old Air Force veteran who was just simply taking a walk in his neighborhood. He was murdered by a guy out on a felony PR bond. You would think maybe that's kind of like the end of the story, right? Now he's charged with murder, right? Guess what? He's back out. On a bond.

 

Summer Chester

Jonathan Vera was booked and charged with capital murder, shot and killed a 55-year-old homeowner in his sleep during a home invasion in the Greenpoint area. And he shot at another person that was trying to flee the scene. Vera was booked, charged with capital murder, was given a $250,000 bond, which he couldn't make. So for several years, he was actually in the county jail where he belonged. While in a county jail, he was charged with assault of a public servant, when he decided to do several things to one of the officers…. So now he's charged with another felony. Okay. He also racked up 90 pages worth of infractions while behind bars, which kind of, you know, in my experience, that kind of leads you to the conclusion that he's not exactly behaving himself to do that. But, you know, what do I know?

So this particular court ignored all that and lowered his capital murder bond from $250 to $50 [thousand]. He makes the $50 [thousand]; he gets out, despite again being charged with another felony while in custody and 90 pages worth of infractions. Six months later, he's speeding, runs a red light, kills Summer Chester, a 23-year-old TSU graduate student. Summer Chester paid the price for that.

Andy Kahan points out Summer Chester, one of 181 victims
of violent felons out on multiple PR bonds in Harris County.

Whose fault is this? The courts.

We haven’t had a lot good to say about District Attorney Kim Ogg; she campaigned on no jail time for drug offenses. But Kahan defended her. She actually was a part of Crime Stoppers a few years back. And she has been pushing to stop the PR bonds for violent felons, to no avail. In fact, there are a number of things where she and our incompetent County Judge are at odds. My theory is that many of the drug offenses are plea deals down from larger offenses, so you can’t ignore them. And if you ignore them, bigger stuff happens. But at least she is recognizing the violent crime problem.

Some of the problem is policy pushed by the radical County Judge Lina Hidalgo and those who control her on the County Commission. But, really, it comes down to the individual judges.

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, at fault for policies
leading to rising crime. Photo by Van Williams, found
in The Texan news story.

Kahan pointed out that, historically, incumbent judges don’t get primary opponents—unless they’re really bad. This year a majority of the judges had opponents in the Democrat primary. Six or seven were voted out in the primary. He adds, “This upcoming election cycle, you're going to see an emphasis on judicial races like you've never seen before.”

I know in the Republican Party we worked very hard to get candidates to run in every race. I signed petitions for most of them. Of particular importance are the criminal courts, which we’re talking about today. But people in civil and family courts have suffered from incompetent non-law-abiding judges as well.

We need to remember to vote all the way down the ballot—and get friends to do that as well. These judges got in with a “Beto” sweep, with lots of out-of-state money, when we still had straight-ticket voting. It takes some time to actually vote for nearly 100 races, with names you’re not familiar with. Trust us; this year just vote Republican. We were better off when we had mostly Republican judges. We can be better off again.

Sorry the photo’s blurry, but I was pleased to see this sign, across a six-lane road from our favorite little neighborhood restaurant a few days ago.

Besides voting, what can we do about crime? Bond reform is a legislative priority, so we’ll be working with the legislature in just a few months.

Kahan talked a bit about legislation. Last session weird stuff happened, and then the Democrats fled the state for the entirety of one of the special sessions. They eventually got a bill through called the Damon Allen Act, based on a trooper who was shot and killed by a criminal out on multiple felony bonds. The bill makes it so murderers can no longer get on a “get out of jail free” PR bond.

Kahan talked about the testimony in Austin on that bill. The opposition is well organized and well funded—and they show up. They had 80 people there in Austin to testify against the bill. The proponents had 10; 7 were from Crime Stoppers.

He talked about another bill that unfortunately didn’t pass. It was for a constitutional amendment—which means it would be voted on by the people—to allow discretion for judges to withhold bond from certain violent felons in addition to capital murder. The proposal related to the Paul Castro case from Houston. A man and his son were leaving a Houston Astros game last summer when the son was shot in what was called a road-rage case. People were rightfully ticked off when the judge granted a bond to the murderer. The way the statute currently reads, the only offense in which a judge has discretion to not give a bond is for capital murder. Other levels of murder and violent crimes must be given a bond, and if the criminal meets it, he’s out on the streets. And with the backlog in the courts right now, it could be years before his case is heard.

So the law was to allow denying bond in certain egregious cases that don’t happen to qualify as capital murder.

The bill passed in the Senate 27-2. In the House, because it was for a constitutional amendment, a two-thirds majority was required. The vote fell short by 12 votes. Kahan notes that every Democrat representative from Harris County voted against allowing the voter to decide whether to give judges discretion.

It’s interesting that the Harris County District Attorney’s Office testified in favor of the bill—presenting supporting documentation and data showing why we needed it. It’s rare for government entities to disagree on a bill, especially when led by the same party. But the Harris County Commissioners Court sent someone to testify against it. The guy they sent—his Twitter feed’s opening statement said, “Abolish Prisons.” Now you know the ultimate game plan of the radicals running the county.

So this is a bill to look for again next session.

Stopping crime isn’t supposed to be a partisan thing. Our Commissioners Court and our judges seem to have made it that way. The Commissioners Court has been rather put out with Crime Stoppers, and with Kahan in particular. They called him an “ax-grinding fearmonger.” Kahan says he’s embraced that. They put up a picture of him grinding an ax at Crime Stoppers. But about the partisanship, he says,

I don't understand why public safety has become partisan, but I can guarantee you every people person on that, with a picture here, didn't care if they were Republican, Democrat, independent, or what.

If we get in the right judges, who abide by the law instead of letting criminals go free, and if we get the right laws, will crime go down? Chances are it will. Here’s a story out of Miami, where they fought the trend of defunding police (which is the bad policy Harris County has been attempting to inflict on us), and they're seeing lower crime rates. Murders are at a decades-long low, and overall crime is the lowest it has been since the 1930s. (Video of that story below.)

 

Let Me Put You on Hold

There’s a moment in The Avengers, when we first meet the Black Widow. She is tied to a chair, leaning out over a pit, being tortured by bad guys, when a phonecall comes in—on the bad guy’s phone—and she's annoyed by the interruption—because she had them right where she wanted them and “this moron is giving me everything.” But she is told of the important mission, so she says, “Let me put you on hold.”

Then of course she miraculously breaks free, because she has such amazing skills. And then casually picks up her shoes and the phone and walks away.

We, the good citizens of the United States, seem to be tied to a chair, leaning out over a pit, being tortured, figuratively speaking. Under the circumstances it might take a shift in perspective to believe we have the bad guys right where we want them—information coming out, takedown about to happen.

The bad guys only think they’re in control.

I am not one who believes that some version of a SHIELD team has a long, elaborate plan that they are allowing to play out. I am, however, one who believes that, particularly for our day, we have our God in Heaven who has a plan to take down the bad guys. And His skills are way better than the fictional Black Widow’s. I don’t know which moment it will be when He answers our prayers by saying, “Let me put you on hold,” and then destroys the wicked. But He has told His prophets through the centuries that such a moment is coming.

So I have hope. Even when the loss of our freedoms is more apparent with every news cycle.

In the meantime, I am trying to understand the enemy, and what the enemy is doing.

This past week someone on that side, not one I had thought of as an enemy, said the quiet part out loud. This was Sam Harris, noted mainly for being an atheist, but an atheist with morals. He was on the TRIGGERnometry podcast. We learned from him that he doesn’t care about morals. As he put it, “Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement. I would not have cared.” Whatever is on that laptop—including Joe Biden’s corruption, “and understand they’re getting kickbacks from Biden’s deals in Ukraine and wherever else, right? Or China.” Doesn’t matter. “It is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in. It’s like, it’s like a firefly to the sun.”

Sam Harris, on TRIGGERnometry podcast
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What does he enumerate of Trump’s sun hot sins? Trump University, for one. Worse than everything on that laptop? Trump University was a class action case, brought in 2013, settled for $25 million, fully compensating all claimants plus $1 million in punitive damages. It likely would have gone to trial and been fought and appealed on the merits of the law, but for the timing, which put it right after the 2016 presidential election, during the busy inaugural season. So they settled for convenience. That is apparently gazillions of times worse than Biden kickbacks in exchange for access to the VP, for multiple millions of dollars, putting our nation at risk. Not to mention the drugs and sex and possible sex trafficking on the Biden laptop, which was withheld from the public for a year by the FBI, and then quashed in media just prior to the 2020 election.

Does Harris mention anything else? Yes, Trump said mean things on Twitter. He actually claimed Trump doxed people “again and again and again.” I’m unaware of any accusations of Trump ever doxing anyone. Trump followers, however, have been doxed, and persecuted, and targeted by the IRS, taken down from not only Twitter but Facebook, YouTube, and wherever else.

But self-proclaimed moralist Sam Harris thinks an outright conspiracy to prevent Trump from regaining the White House was absolutely justified. Who cares about democracy when an asteroid that is hurtling toward earth in the form of a seventy-something businessman could be stopped by any means necessary?

We have to wonder, why really does Sam Harris fear another Trump presidency? A long-past settled lawsuit and nonexistent doxing claims can’t be it. Is it because Trump moved us to the verge of a Hitlerian nightmare in his first term? No. In fact, he deregulated, freed us up, moved the economy out of the Obama malaise and into full recovery, particularly lowering unemployment for blacks. He stopped the majority of the border crisis with a “remain in Mexico” policy. He practically achieved lasting peace in the Middle East. He was, refreshingly, not authoritarian.

What are we supposed to be scared of? White supremacy—a miniscule issue without any connection to Trump. Racism—a dwindling issue without any connection to Trump. COVID—not caused by Trump and would have been nearly immediately solved with low-cost medicines given as early treatment, which Trump touted—if that normal action hadn’t been halted by Deep State actors here and across the world.

So what is there to fear?

Maybe loss of power to the ruling class. Trump, despite the money, despite the education at an Ivy League institution, is not considered elite. He is too much like the working class people the elites need to rule over.

And, let’s be clear, Sam Harris the intellectual is an elite. Apparently nothing emotionally upturns him more than someone in power who is not an elite—democracy be damned; that must be stopped!

People who believe they have the right to rule over others will always be the enemy of the people.

Will Cain discussed the Sam Harris clip with Gad Saad, a one-time friend of Sam Harris, who called him out for this immoral and unreasonable assertion. Cain summed up Harris’s viewpoint, I think accurately, as, “He said it’s perfectly fine to lie, steal, and cheat in order to accomplish ‘victory.’” In other words, Sam Harris has no principle, beyond winning, that he’s willing to stand on.

Will Cain (left) and Gad Saad discuss Sam Harris's moral relativism
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As Cain and Saad continued the conversation, Cain commented that, while “Sam’s not a Nobody, Sam’s not that big a deal; the problem is, Sam said out loud what many others believe.” He then reminds us that former CIA Director Michael Hayden said something similar recently, painting with an even broader brush, that there is nothing in his life more threatening that the modern-day Republican Party. Cain continues, “Worse than Boko Haram and Al-Qaeda and Isis. If that is their belief, they will break any rule. They will break any principle. Because the existence of humanity is at stake.” That’s what they seem to have convinced themselves to believe—because the supremacy of elitism doesn’t sell well among the masses.

Wednesday, Viva & Barnes did a Sidebar discussion with Michael Millerman, political philosopher and Aleksandr Dugin expert (he translated some of Dugin’s writings). Dugin is an anti-West and anti-modernity philosopher who has Putin’s ear; his daughter was assassinated this week, and there is speculation that the car bomb was meant for him. That’s all a discussion for some other day. But Dugin has been called a Neo-Nazi. And Viva Frei, who is ethnically Jewish, got called a Nazi this week as well. So they asked Millerman about the use of this term. Millerman answers:

I think everybody knows who’s watching this, on one level, everybody gets called a fascist today. Everybody gets called a Nazi today, if you veer a millimeter to the right, probably, of the ideological consensus.

He mentions an article in IM1776.com, by the online magazine's editor Daniel Miller about the history of that anti-fascist accusation of the left. Within that article the author makes this connection that might be relevant to our discussion today:

For the same reason the 2016 election victory of President Trump and populist dissident movements in Europe are repeatedly connected to Putin. The objective is to refuse democratic legitimacy to what would otherwise register as democratic movements, operating in nominally democratic societies, to suppress them as issues of national security.

Millerman continues about the Nazi epithet:

This is just automatically to discredit your enemies. And by the way, if you can legitimate calling all of your enemies fascists, and you can legitimate, you know, fascists are so much the scum of the earth that they should be cancelled—or killed—well, you’re not very far from legitimating the killing of your political enemies.

We’ve seen that you can cancel your political enemies. That happens all the time now. But, you know, we’re not too many steps away from car bombing your political enemies, in the West, I think, if you follow out the logic of delegitimating with this title.

Robert Barnes (top left) and Viva Frei (below) talk with Michael Millerman
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All this sounds like things are getting more dire. I don’t dispute that.

But there’s also something else going on. Truth is more powerful than raw assertion of power. The enemies of freedom are revealing everything they’re doing, and people are starting to see what was hidden:

§      There is no way they had the right to raid former President Trump’s residence with a general warrant—illegal for criminal investigations. They have tried to frame him, and have tried to cover up their crimes. The truth is going to be seen.

§      When the DOJ let it slip that they were targeting parents who spoke up at school board meetings, and investigating them as domestic terrorists, the truth got out, and perfectly normal and peaceful parents woke up. They now see the enemy.

§      Fauci has announced he is stepping down by the end of the year—which ought to have happened a decade or more ago for the octogenarian who has called himself “the science.” No matter how many times lately he’s tried to push for mask wearing and vaccination for children, people aren’t heeding him anymore. And there are threats of investigation into his corruption related to COVID origins, vaccine kickbacks, medicine kickbacks, and a whole lot of other crimes he’s committed. Personally, I think he should be prosecuted for every COVID-19 death that resulted from prevention of early treatment and by vaccine or Remdesivir adverse reactions.

§      More truth continues to come out about election fraud.

§      This week Biden announced he is forgiving student loan debt for vast swaths of that demographic—to be paid for by people saved, scrimped, paid off their debts, or had to forego the education for lack of money. And his answer to whether that’s fair is to mumble something unintelligible. It appears to be a brazen attempt to buy votes. And even Nancy Pelosi has pointed out that he doesn’t have the power to do it.

If history and recent primaries are an indicator, this November election could mean a switch of power in the legislature. And that could lead to some good things, like clearing out some of the swamp, even without Trump in office.

I can’t say whether November 8^th is going to be the “Let me put you on hold” moment, when the enemy suddenly and decisively gets taken down. I’d like that moment to be soon—for everyone’s sake. But if not then, the tension is mounting, and it will be coming.

And we know the outcome. Truth wins.